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Killer Executed

State's 34th Of Year

November 02, 2000|By From Tribune News Services.

HUNTSVILLE, TEXAS — A man convicted of beating a woman to death in a murder-for-hire scheme was executed by injection Wednesday.

Jeffrey Dillingham confessed to police two weeksafter oil heiress Caren Koslow, 40, was stabbed and beaten to death in March 1992 in her Ft. Worth home. Her husband was beaten and left for dead but survived.

Dillingham, 27, was the 34th convicted killer to be executed by lethal injection in Texas this year, three short of the state's record, set in 1997.

An accomplice, Brian Salter, and his girlfriend, Kristi Koslow, Mrs. Koslow's stepdaughter, received life terms.

Testimony showed Kristi Koslow, then 17, had hired Dillingham and that she wanted her father and stepmother dead because she didn't get along with them.